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America is a country of laws.

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Jacob Lawrence

This is my genre. . . the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

Black, Ghetto, Happiness, Mankind, Realized, Sorrow
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My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life - if he has developed this philosophy, he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas.

Art, Artist, Develop, Developed, Life, Philosophy

All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.

Artist, Artists, Constantly, Know, Knows, Looking

I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools. . . I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro. I didn't [paint] just as a historical thing, but because I believe these things tie up with the Negro today. We don't have a physical slavery, but an economic slavery. If these people, who were so much worse off than the people today, could conquer their slavery, we can certainly do the same thing. . . . I am not a politician. I'm an artist, just trying to do my part to bring this thing about.

Artist, Believe, Bring, Conquer, School, Schools

I would describe my work as expressionist. The expressionist point of view is stressing your own feelings about something.

Expressionist, Feelings, Stress, View, Views, Work

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Art, Artist, Bring, Experience, Painting
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